SARAH KOLB TRIAL: Major figures in the case
Adrianne Reynolds: The 16-year-old moved to East Moline from Longview, Texas, in November 2004. Two months later her adoptive father and stepmother, Tony and Joann Reynolds, reported her missing. Five days after that police found her head and arms in a manhole at a Rock Island park and her torso and legs at a farm in Mercer County, Ill. Her former friends and classmates, Sarah Kolb and Cory Gregory, both 17, were charged in the murder.
Members of Adrianne's family say her gift was singing. The guitar she got for Christmas the month before she was slain still sits in her shrine-like bedroom at the Reynolds' East Moline home.
Sarah Kolb: The Milan, Ill., teen was known by friends and classmates at Black Hawk Outreach Center in East Moline as fearless.
Police say Kolb is a killer who lured Reynolds into her car where she strangled her to death. Prosecutors will try to prove that Kolb killed Reynolds, probably out of jealousy, and then enlisted friends to help her hide the body. Parts of Reynolds' remains were found at a farm that is owned by Kolb's grandparents. Her mother and sister are material witnesses in the case.
Though just 16 years old at the time of the murder, Kolb was being tried as an adult. Attorneys and Circuit Judge James Teros will meet next week to talk about a new trial date after Wednesday's mistrial.
Corey Gregory: The 18-year-old's lawyer has said since shortly after his arrest that Gregory was merely an innocent bystander in the Adrianne Reynolds murder. But prosecutors hope to prove that he helped do the killing and helped dismember the body.
It was Gregory, of Moline, who led authorities to Reynolds' remains.